The title (TT)

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Ever since Jean Doresse’s brief description of III, 2 in “Trois livres gnostiques inédits: Évangile des Égyptiens, Épître d’Eugnoste, Sagesse de Jésus Christ”1 the tractate has been known as “The Gospel of the Egyptians”. This is the name given to the tractate at the beginning of the scribal colophon in III 69, 6. The formal title of the tractate as stated at the end of the colophon III 69, 16-17 and again, with the usual decorations, directly below the colophon (III 69, 18-20) reads ⲧⲃⲓⲃⲗⲟⲥ ⲧϩⲓⲉⲣⲁ ⲙ̅ⲡⲛⲟϭ ⲛ̅ⲁϩⲟⲣⲁⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ̅ⲡⲛⲉⲩⲙⲁ (69, 17 ⲡ͞ⲛ͞ⲁ) ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ.2 The title “The Holy Book of the Great…

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“The title (TT)”, in:
The Coptic Gnostic Library — A Complete Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Editor in Chief: James M. Robinson.
Consulted online on 16 October 2017 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004228900_cgl_aTT>